Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 31, 2010 19:25:17 GMT -5
This is an all purpose thread for talking about the crappy things that happened to you over the past year that you hope will not happen again, especially in the new year.
I for one have to say that 2010 was a series of tragedies for me and I will not miss it in the slightest:
In January my then 14 year old got arrested again, but this time he was actually thrown in jail for a short time.
In March my niece died about 15 minutes after being born.
In May my 12 year old got really sick for an extended period of time.
In June that illness progressed to the point that he almost died and needed to have surgery 3 times and was in the ICU for the bulk of the month.
In July my mother committed suicide. At that time I discovered the hard way that she had become a hoarder.
In July through November I had to make regular trips to Minnesota to clean out Mom's property so that it could be sold, which is 12-13 hour trip one way. That was exhausting, expensive, depressing, and draining in every possible way.
In November I had to sell the property for $50,000 less than its tax accessed value.
In short, for the most part this past year blew. Good riddance, 2010!!!
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Post by Bake Or Die on Dec 31, 2010 19:33:18 GMT -5
In March I had a 18 year old friend die in a one car accident.(The dates in my signature are her birth & death year & the picture is a picture of her back tattoo)
In December I had a Vitrectomy in my right eye which has left me with no sight in my eye. I have no idea if I'll regain my eyesight in my one eye or if it's gone for good. Add to the fact that the recovery is not without pain.
I'm kind of torn about forgetting about 2010. Sure I want to forget about this pain from this surgery,etc but I don't want to forget about 2010 because it's the last year I'll be able to say my friend was here to see.
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Post by The Ichi on Dec 31, 2010 20:04:24 GMT -5
2010 was the worst year for me personally. I had a huge fight with the family, lost two pets, had some health problems and suffered the worst break-up in my life causing me to swear off relationships. I waited for my laptop to say 1/1/2011 and smiled, f*** 2010.
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Post by Shameful_Lobsterhead on Dec 31, 2010 20:17:27 GMT -5
I was suckered out of $33,000 by my older brother and his girlfriend His girlfriend ends up ruining our relationship as brothers Living with my older brother at the time, he would always tell me that I would never amount to anything, every single day Heh! yeah
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Dec 31, 2010 20:24:59 GMT -5
I agree man. I lost a few close relatives, a girl I had been with for 5 years and got into my first car accident on my birthday. Lost a job that I had been working for months to obtain because of cutbacks, and generally had a mediocre year.
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Post by DeathRay on Jan 1, 2011 0:26:54 GMT -5
I had a pretty good year. Lots of free time, lots of meditating. Now i know what the heck i want to do with my life and that's a huge improvement from last year (well... two years ago technically )
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Post by i.Sarita.com on Jan 1, 2011 0:33:11 GMT -5
I think 2010 might have been my most "in the middle of the road" year since becoming an adult. Nothing too horrible happened, yet nothing really great did either.
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Post by TheDieselTrain on Jan 1, 2011 2:24:49 GMT -5
I want to name my toilet 2010 so I piss all over the year that was 2010
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jan 1, 2011 5:13:05 GMT -5
2009 wasn't exactly a picnic for me, but at the beginning of 2010, I had hope that things would turn around. My optimism proved to be of little comfort, however.
In January, my girlfriend of 5 years, with whom I cohabited with for half that time, and who I was about to propose to, just coldly discarded me and left me for another guy. That had been my most serious and intimate relationship up until that point, so it tore my heart out. I proceeded to spend the next several months on dating sites, rebounding and desperately trying to fill that void, either getting rejected straight up or entering into relationships that I had no business getting into in the first place.
In August, my cat of 13 years died very suddenly. People can judge me all they want when I say this, but that cat was the only one to truly "get" me. I felt shock and grief that I didn't previously think was possible. An immeasurable personal loss.
In October, while anticipating the return of my second cat (who had been staying with my grandmother briefly), I came to find out that, when my grandmother was evicted from her home, she (the cat) had been taken out into a field, shot, and buried. I was not once contacted about coming to get her or the situation in regards to the eviction. When pursuing legal action towards the individual who did this, I discovered that what he did was, in fact, 100% legal. Any pet that escapes from the home is immediately deemed a stray and can be legally euthanized if they are deemed to be a pest, all at the perpetrator's own discretion. I was unimaginably enraged at this entire situation, and made me lose any faith I had left in this country's legal system.
Moving backwards slightly, in September, I met another girlfriend. Yeah, I'd been through several since my last serious breakup, but this one I actually saw a future with. We got very serious very fast, and after a month, it was over. Her behavior during the breakup was eerily similar to my last serious girlfriend. The cold, distant behavior, the leaving me for another guy, the whole deal. Only this one didn't just do that, she felt the need to go for the jugular and just tear me to shreds emotionally. Odd as it may sound, it was just as devastating as the last serious breakup. After this, I just said "f*** it" in regards to relationships. At the most, I'll date casually, but I no longer have any faith whatsoever in serious relationships. (Oh, and if you were paying attention, yes, that second break-up occurred roughly around the time my second cat was murdered. The fall months have certainly never been kind to me.)
All of this has been going on while I've spent 2010 trying to restructure my life and get things moving again after being debilitated by OCD since I graduated high school. And while I'm typically very good about keeping it in line nowadays, trust me when I say it wasn't easy to keep an anxiety disorder at bay when I had all that other shit going on around me. But I did, and continue to better myself each day.
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